Tried To Make A Baizhu Playlist A While Ago, But The Information Around Him Made It Too Hard To Find

Tried to make a baizhu playlist a while ago, but the information around him made it too hard to find perfect fitting tracks... still working on it...

Tried a pantalone playlist yesterday and while I had an equal amount of information it just worked, 6 tracks so far... now I get more information and throw myself into it...

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!

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Living with many maladies, where will one find a cure?

"Dr. Baizhu... Something is bothering him, but he won't tell me anything... He hates death, but he's always researching it... I don't understand... But that's not a problem. I know... that Dr. Baizhu is a good person."

— A page ripped out of Qiqi's notebook by an unknown person

◆ Baizhu

◆ Beyond Mortality

◆ Owner of Bubu Pharmacy

◆ Dendro

◆ Lagenaria

"There's a pharmacy in Liyue called Bubu, and in it is Dr. Baizhu. His skills make all illnesses better, but his medicines are really bitter!"

This nursery rhyme has been widely spread throughout Feiyun Slope, and it has been used by countless parents to warn their children not to get sick... "or else."

However, it seems that the main character of this nursery rhyme is hardly feared by children. Instead, it is with utmost affection that he is called "Mr. Baizhu" by them.

This impression is mostly attributable to Baizhu's gentle and friendly demeanor. Interacting with him is a most refreshing experience. And no matter how anxious the patient may be, his confident smile will never fail to reassure.

Regrettably, Baizhu cannot save all his patients — himself, for example.

Herbalist Gui has mentioned that Baizhu's physical condition is extremely poor, and he often has to go back to his residence to rest after seeing patients. Even so, his smile never falters while in front of people.

When Gui asked him about this, he replied, "If the doctor looks sick himself, how can his patients face their illnesses with confidence?"

Day after day, Baizhu heals his patients. His ever-present smile hides the numerous bitter medicines he takes and the pain he suffers alone.

As a huge fan of Muse-core windowshopping (at the moment this muse is Baizhu ^^") I just can't hold onto myself and need to share my personal favourites so far too >.< just same braincell...

Don't mind me, just looking at some Baizhucore hair accessories...

This is such an amazing breakdown of "what we know about baizhu so far", just the part with him being 'not of high courage' is missing but I only read that in a wiki so far so it can be speculation too

TY FOR THAT, but I've been dying to write more and adding Baizhu actually...

But I don't remember much about him and I'm too lazy to dive too deep again... So any tips?? Or stuff about him?? SORRY IF I'M ASKING YOU TO MUCH SKCBKDBD

you're fine, no need to apologize! under the cut bc i rambled lmao

so, that's the fun thing about baizhu lol. we don't know a whole lot about him, despite him being around from pretty much the very beginning of genshin. he's very mysterious and has a lot of rumors swirling around him, but the only rumor we've heard in-game is that his herbal medicines are very bitter. and that's confirmed by like, 3-4 voice over lines from various characters (keqing, yaoyao, xiangling are the ones that come to mind). and anytime paimon or the traveler mentions his sketchiness, it's oftentimes brushed off with "oh, i've only heard about his bitter medicine" (keqing) or "oh, he's always been like that" (yanfei). but despite his own personal sketchiness, he does work with yanfei to take down questionable medical remedies.

his overarching goal is finding the secret to a longer life. he has an unknown chronic illness that greatly impacts his constitution (to the point that qiqi, a literal zombie child, has better constitution than him) and lifespan. that is his ulterior motivation for taking qiqi under his wing, to see if he can learn an underlying mechanism from her. she works by giving herself commands or following other's commands, which can be cancelled by the phrase "i love you the most"... but baizhu says it very weakly, so he struggles to cancel her commands. despite all of this, he makes sure to take care of qiqi and is very protective of her (hutao hates that she isn't allowed to put her to rest. i think she's canonically traumatized qiqi with how she tried to put her to rest.) he's also been described as a not being "a man of high caliber or great courage", but i don't know if that relates to his actual personality or if that's a part of his chronic illness and having to prioritize his own health.

aside from that, everyone regards him very highly. his patients oftentimes remark that he is a very kind person and he takes good care of his patients (i believe in one of the lantern rites, xiangling sought out advice on what dish she should make for a competition, and, instead of what he would like personally, his mind immediately went to what his patients would eat if they were sick.) i really, really want to see how his relationship with changsheng works, because it's believed that he and changsheng are based off of the chinese legend of the white snake, in which a struggling herbalist accepts aid from a divine white snake that cures their patient. "changsheng" also means "eternal life" while "wangsheng" means "death", so i'd be interested in seeing if the funeral parlor and baizhu have anything to do with each other, especially since the wangsheng funeral parlor used to handle plagues long ago.

i have noticed, a lot of the fandom's interpretations of baizhu's sketchiness is based off of his english voice actor (saying this because i've seen people cite it before) and the english, chinese, and japanese VAs all have very different interpretations of his character's voice. chinese is very soft-spoken and helpful, japanese is a good mix of helpful and pulling your leg/teasing you, english sounds VERY sketch and, from what i've personally noticed, is very inconsistent (like, to the point that i thought he had a VA switch). to give you some perspective, i'd strongly encourage watching this video (8 minutes) if you have the time.

so far, it's been speculated that baizhu is the dendro archon, changsheng is orobashi, he's the god of the woods, he's a sunchild, he and pantalone are the same person, he and pantalone are brothers, he's the one that's destined to take down dottore... there's been a lot of speculation about his character on the fandom's end of things, but we are only starting to get leaked lore about him and his quest. it's funny, because people speculated for a very long time that alhaitham was the reincarnation of king deshret, but he ended up just being some dude. well, baizhu is the same way, but he actually does have some big mystery and he's more than likely not just "some dude".

current theories speculate that he'll either a.) have to do with the final expansion of the sumeru desert (specifically apep's resort) or b.) have to do with the final expansion of liyue

Just another Baizhu Theory:

I know this is a bit far fetched (and probably proven wrong soon) but I can't stop thinking about it:

What if Baizhu doesn't do so much research on immortality and how to gain it because he wants to become immortal himself (like the people around him assert) but in fact is immortal, pays the price with his bad physical constitution and is just done with it?

Like he IS immortal, but can't live his life to the fullest because he's so fragile and ill because of it?